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> No problem...I didn't know about the gun running, though. But your right, > Juenger probably did. > > Mark > > On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, John King wrote: > > > Mark, > > > > Thanks for the references. I'm glad someone's got a better memory than > > me... > > > > > poetry. Somewhere I recall Juenger mentioning Rimbaud's vita, i.e. his > > > choice of a "stable income" in the last years of his life over the > > > life a poet but I'm not sure where(maybe in "Autor und > > > > Hm, don't know if trying to join up in various mercenary forces and gun > > running in Abyssinnia counts as having a "stable income". Hello out there, better late than never ;-) The passage in question is "Sie [Künstler, die ihre Aufgabe überleben] gleichen dann pensionierten Beamten, die ihren Neigungen nachgehen, wie Rimbaud dem Geldverdienen und Turner dem Trunk" Paris, 19. Februar 1943 (SW III, 12) "Geldverdienen" does have a slightly negative connotation in German, at least for some people. It is a bit like "prostitution" or "selling out" at least. And probably for Jünger, too, who never had to "work" in the classical sense. Greetings from Berlin, Olaf
